Radiological staging in breast cancer: Which asymptomatic patients to image and how

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1522-1528

  Barrett, T ^a   Bowden, D J ^a   Greenberg, D C ^b   Brown, C H ^b   Wishart, G C ^c,d   Britton, P D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d The National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections at University College London in partnership with UK Health Security Agency   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic; Breast cancer; CT; Radiological staging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PELVIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350637643     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605323     Document Type: Article

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